February 11......

February 11 is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 323 (324 in leap years) days remaining in the year on this date.

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

● 660 BC - Traditional founding date of Japan by Emperor Jimmu Tenno.

● 385 - Oldest Pope elected; Siricius-bishop of Tarragona

● 731 - Gregory II ends his reign as Pope.

● 824 - St. Paschal I ends his reign as Pope.

● 1531 - Henry VIII of England recognized as supreme head of the Church of England.

● 1543 - Battle at Wayna Daga Ethiopian/Portugese troops beat Moslem army

● 1543 - Karel/Henry VIII sign anti-French covenant

● 1573 - 1st European, Francis Drake sees the Pacific (from Panamá)

● 1575 - King Frederick of Denmark offers island of Hveen to Tycho Brahe

● 1650 - Death of Ren‚ Descartes, 53, French philosopher and mathematician. His last words were: 'My soul, thou hast long been held captive; the hour has now come for thee to quit thy prison...; suffer, then, this separation with joy and courage.'

● 1720 - Sweden & Prussia sign peace (2nd Treaty of Stockholm)

● 1752 - Pennsylvania Hospital, 1st hospital in the United States, opens.

● 1766 - Stamp Act declared unconstitutional in Virginia

● 1768 - Samuel Adams letter, circulates around American colonies, opposing Townshend Act taxes

● 1779 - English founder of Methodism John Wesley wrote in a letter: 'Chance has no share in the government of the world. The Lord reigns, and disposes all things, strongly and sweetly, for the good of them that love him.'

● 1790 - Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, petitions U.S. Congress for abolition of slavery. It failed.

● 1790 - Long after colonists had invaded upstate New York and natives had fought back successfully (including in alliance with the British during the American Revolution), U.S. signs first treaty with Iroquois.

● 1793 - Prussian troops occupy Venlo Netherlands

● 1794 - First session of United States Senate open to the public.

● 1802 - Birth of Lydia Maria Child, abolitionist, reformer, author.

● 1805 - Sacajawea gives birth to Jean-Baptist Charbonneau while leading Lewis and Clark Expedition.

● 1808 - Judge Jesse Fell experimented by burning anthracite coal to keep his house warm. He successfully showed how clean the coal burned and how cheaply it could be used as a heating fuel.

● 1809 - Robert Fulton patents the steamboat

● 1811 - President Madison prohibits trade with Britain for 3rd time in 4 years

● 1812 - At Republican Gov. Elbridge Gerry's behest, Massachusetts is redistricted to give Republicans advantage in the election of State legislators. One grotesquely shaped new district, described as looking like a salamander, resulted in the coining of the word gerrymander.

● 1814 - Norway's independence is proclaimed, marking the ultimate end of the Kalmar Union.

● 1826 - University College London is founded under the name University of London.

● 1837 - American Physiological Society organizes in Boston, Massachusetts.

● 1840 - Gaetano Donizetti's opera La Fille du Régiment receives its first performance in Paris.

● 1847 - Thomas Alva Edison, the prolific inventor whose more than 1,000 patents included the light bulb and the gramophone, was born.

● 1852 - 1st British public female toilet opens (Bedford Street London)

● 1854 - Major streets lit by coal gas for 1st time

● 1855 - Kassa Hailu is crowned Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia, by Abuna Salama III in a ceremony at the church of Derasge Maryam.

● 1858 - In Lourdes, France, 14-year-old French peasant St. Bernadette Soubirous experienced her first vision of the Virgin Mary. By July 16th of this year, she had experienced 18 such visions.

● 1861 - American Civil War: United States House of Representatives unanimously passes a resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state.

● 1861 - President-elect Lincoln takes train from Springfield IL to Washington DC

● 1873 - King Amadeus I of Spain abdicates.

● 1889 - Meiji constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet of Japan convenes in 1890.

● 1890 - U.S. opens 11 million acres of Sioux land to white settlers.

● 1895 - The lowest ever UK temperature of -27.2°C was recorded at Braemar in Aberdeenshire. This record was equalled on 10 January 1982 and again on 30 December 1995.

● 1895 - Georgetown became part of Washington DC

● 1897 - White Rose Mission opens on East 97th Street, NYC

● 1898 - Owen Smith of North Carolina, AME Zion minister, named minister to Liberia

● 1899 - -15ºF (-26ºC), Washington DC (district record)

● 1899 - -61ºF (-52ºC), Montana (record low temperature)

● 1902 - Police assault universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels.

● 1905 - Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer nos.

● 1907 - De Master's Dutch government resigns

● 1907 - Passenger ship Larchmont sinks by Block Island, 322 die

● 1908 - Heemskerk's government begins in Holland

● 1913 - IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) leads rubber strike in Akron, Ohio.

● 1916 - Black feminist and civil-rights activist Flo Kennedy is born in Kansas City, Missouri. As a lawyer, Kennedy represented Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker & H. Rap Brown. In 1966, she founded the Media Workshop to confront racism in media & advertising. In 1972 she forms the Feminist Party and files an IRS complaint alleging that the Catholic Church violates tax-exempt requirements by spending money to influence political decisions.

● 1916 - Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control.

● 1919 - Seattle general strike ends.

● 1919 - Friedrich Ebert (SPD), elected President of Germany.

● 1922 - US intervention army leaves Honduras

● 1926 - Tokelau (Union) islands in south Pacific transfers to New Zealand

● 1929 - Vatican City (world's smallest country) made an enclave of Rome

● 1929 - The Lateran Treaty was signed. Italy now recognized the independence and sovereignty of Vatican City.

● 1932 - 73ºF highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in February

● 1934 - Austria - Troops raid Socialist Party; uprising and bombardment of Karl Marx Co-op housing complex in Vienna follows.

● 1935 - -11ºF (-24ºC), Ifrane, Morocco (African record low)

● 1935 - 1st US airplane flight with auto slung beneath the fuselage, New York

● 1936 - Pumping begins to build Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay

● 1937 - General Motors agreed to recognize the United Automobile Workers Union, thereby ending the current sit-down strike against them.

● 1937 - Forty-eight thousand General Motors workers win 44-day sit-down strike in Flint, Michigan.

● 1938 - BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Capek play R.U.R. (The play which coined the term "robot").

● 1939 - Lockheed P-38 flies from California to New York in 7 hours 2 minutes.

● 1941 - First Gold record presented to Glenn Miller for "Chattanooga Choo Choo".

● 1941 - Lieutenant-General Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli

● 1941 - Sicherheitsdienst complains about Dutch anti German sentiments

● 1943 - Transport number 47 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany

● 1943 - General Dwight Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe.

● 1944 - German troops re-conquer Aprilia Italy

● 1944 - U-424 sunk off Ireland

● 1945 - 1st gas turbine propeller-driven airplane flight tested, Downey CA

● 1945 - Yalta agreement signed by FDR, Churchill & Stalin

● 1948 - John Costello follows Eamon Da Valera as premier of Ireland

● 1948 - U.S. Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall prayed: 'We ask Thee not for tasks more suited to our strength, but for strength more suited to our tasks.'

● 1951 - Kwame Nkrumah wins 1st parliamentary election on Gold coast (Ghana)

● 1953 - President Dwight Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.

● 1953 - The Soviet Union breaks off diplomatic relations with Israel.

● 1955 - U.S. agrees to train South Vietnamese troops.

● 1956 - 'Cambridge spies' surface in Moscow; Two British diplomats, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, who vanished in mysterious circumstances five years ago re-appear in the Soviet Union.

● 1958 - Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Chu En-lai as Minister of Foreign affairs

● 1958 - Ruth Carol Taylor was the first black woman to become a stewardess by making her initial flight.

● 1960 - Jack Paar walked off while live on the air on the "Tonight Show" with four minutes left. He did this in response to censors cutting out a joke from the show the night before.

● 1961 - Robert C Weaver sworn in as Administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency with then highest federal post by a black

● 1961 - Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.

● 1963 - CIA Domestic Operations Division created.

● 1963 - The Beatles tape 10 tracks for their first album, including "Please, Please Me".

● 1964 - At the Washington, DC Coliseum, The Beatles have their 1st live appearance in the United States.

● 1964 - Greeks and Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus.

● 1964 - The Republic of China (Taiwan) breaks off diplomatic relations with France.

● 1967 - Less than two months after his return from a trip to Hanoi, A.J. Muste, renowned U.S. pacifist, dies at age 82. As a young minister, helped found both Fellowship of Reconciliation (1919) and War Resisters League (1922); championed direct action and anti-military activism in his later years.

● 1968 - Israeli-Jordanian border clashes.

● 1969 - At St. George Williams College, Montreal, 200 prescient students smash computers with axes and set the computer center on fire during sit-in protesting a professor's racism.

● 1970 - John Lennon pays 1,344 pounds in fines for protesting the South African rugby team playing in Scotland.

● 1970 - 26.37 cm (10.38") of rainfall, Mt Washington NH (state 24-hour record)

● 1970 - Japan becomes 4th nation to put a satellite (Osumi) in orbit

● 1971 - Eighty-seven countries, including the US, UK, and USSR, sign the Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons in international waters.

● 1973 - Vietnam War: First release of American prisoners of war from Vietnam takes place.

● 1974 - Titan-Centaur test launch fails

● 1975 - Tories choose first woman leader; The British Conservative Party chooses Margaret Thatcher as its new leader.

● 1976 - Clifford Alexander Jr confirmed as 1st black Secretary of Army

● 1978 - EOKA organization disbands in Cyprus

● 1978 - "Longest Walk" begins, 300 Native Americans start march from San Francisco to Washington DC.

● 1978 - Lois Gibbs brings U.S. to awareness of "Love Canal" (near Niagara Falls, NY). Residents will be evacuated this year.

● 1978 - Censorship: the People's Republic of China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, Shakespeare and Dickens.

● 1979 - Iran's premier Bakhtiar flees Teheran after collapse of Shah's regime; Ayatollah Khomeini seizes power.

● 1981 - Polish premier Jozef Pinkowski replaced by Wojciech Jaruzelski

● 1981 - 100,000 gallons (380 m³) of radioactive coolant leak into the containment building of TVA Sequoyah 1 nuclear plant in Tennessee, contaminating 8 workers.

● 1982 - High Court rules as illegal Israeli seizure of Arab lands in occupied territories for Jewish "settlers."

● 1983 - 4th largest snowfall in NYC history (18"(46 cm))

● 1984 - 10th space shuttle mission (41-B)-Challenger 4-returns to Earth

● 1985 - Jordan king Hussein & PLO leader Arafat sign accord

● 1985 - Wyandot Indians of Kansas and Oklahoma receive $5.5 million for aboriginal lands sold in 1842 for less than fair market value.

● 1986 - Rights activist Anatoly Scharansky released by USSR, leaves country

● 1986 - Iran begins Fajr-8 offensive against Iraq

● 1987 - British Airways begins trading stocks

● 1987 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1987 - Philippines constitution goes into effect.

● 1987 - Mrs Payne is no brothel Madam; Party planner Cynthia Payne is acquitted of nine charges of controlling prostitutes at her home in south-west London.

● 1988 - Anthony M Kennedy appointed to the Supreme Court

● 1989 - Rev. Barbara C. Harris, 58, was consecrated in Boston as the first woman bishop in the Anglican Church. (In 1988 the Church of England passed the first legislation which began opening the Anglican priesthood to women.)

● 1990 - Nelson Mandela released after being held 27 years in prison without trial by the U.S.-supported apartheid government of South Africa, for the crime of "high treason." Government announces amnesty for all political prisoners in South Africa.

● 1991 - UNPO, the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization, forms in The Hague, Netherlands.

● 1992 - F-16 jet crashes at residential district of Hengelo Netherlands (No deaths)

● 1993 - Janet Reno was appointed to the position of attorney general by U.S. President Clinton. She was the first female to hold the position.

● 1994 - Space shuttle STS-60 (Discovery 18), lands

● 1995 - Space shuttle STS-63 (Discovery 19), lands

● 1997 - STS 82 (Discovery 22) launches

● 1999 - Pluto is once again the farthest planet from the sun in our solar system

● 2000 - The space shuttle Endeavor took off. The mission was to gather information for the most detailed map of the earth ever made.

● 2000 - Great Britain suspended self-rule in Northern Ireland after the Irish Republican Army (IRA) failed to begin decommissioning (disarming) by a February deadline.

● 2002 - Israel attacked Palestinian security headquarters in Gaza City in response to unprecedented Palestinian rocket fire and a shooting attack on Israeli civilians.

● 2003 - The al-Jazeera Arab satellite station broadcast what was believed to be a new audio statement from Osama bin Laden urging Iraqis to carry out suicide attacks on Americans.

● 2004 - A car bomb at an army recruiting center in Baghdad, Iraq, killed 47 people.

● 2006 - Dubai Ports World, a state-owned business in the United Arab Emirates, won approval from a secretive U.S. panel for a $6.8 billion deal to take over operations at six American ports.

● 2006 - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shoots Harry Whittington in the face while the two are hunting together.

BIRTHS

● 1377 - King Ladislas of Naples (d. 1414)

● 1380 - Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist (d. 1459)

● 1466 - Elizabeth of York, wife of Henry VII of England (d. 1503)

● 1535 - Pope Gregory XIV (d. 1591)

● 1568 - Honoré d'Urfé, French writer (d. 1625)

● 1649 - William Carstares, Scottish minister (d. 1715)

● 1657 - Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientist and man of letters (d. 1757)

● 1755 - Albert Christoph Dies, German composer (d. 1822)

● 1764 - Marie-Joseph de Chenier, French poet (d. 1811)

● 1774 - Hans Jarta, Swedish political activist (d. 1847)

● 1776 - Joannis Capodistrias, Greek governor of Troezen (d. 1836)

● 1799 - Basil Moreau, French Founder priest (d. 1873)

● 1800 - William Henry Fox Talbot, English photographer (d. 1877)

● 1802 - Lydia Child, American abolitionist (d. 1880)

● 1812 - Alexander Hamilton Stephens, American politician (d. 1883)

● 1813 - Otto Ludwig, German writer and critic (d. 1865)

● 1819 - Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, American composer (d. 1890)

● 1821 - Auguste-Édouard Mariette, French Egyptologist (d. 1881)

● 1830 - Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff, Prussian musician (d. 1913)

● 1833 - Melville Weston Fuller, 8th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1910)

● 1839 - Josiah Willard Gibbs, American physicist (d. 1903)

● 1847 - Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor (d. 1931)

● 1860 - Rachilde, French author (d. 1953)

● 1869 - Helene Kroller-Muller, Dutch museum founder (d. 1939)

● 1869 - Else Lasker-Schüler, German writer (d. 1945)

● 1873 - Feodor Chaliapin, Russian singer (d. 1938)

● 1874 - Fritz Bennicke Hart, English-born composer (d. 1949)

● 1874 - Elsa Beskow, Swedish author (d. 1953)

● 1887 - John van Melle, South African writer (d. 1953)

● 1891 - J.W. Hearne English cricketer (d. 1965)

● 1894 - Alfonso Leng, Chilean composer (d. 1974)

● 1898 - Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-born physicist (d. 1964)

● 1900 - Thomas, Jr. Hitchcock, American polo player (d. 1944)

● 1900 - Josei Toda, Japanese educator (d. 1958)

● 1900 - Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (d. 2002)

● 1902 - Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect (d. 1971)

● 1903 - Hans Redlich, Austrian composer (d. 1968)

● 1904 - Sir Keith Holyoake, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1983)

● 1908 - Vivian Ernest Fuchs, English geologist (d. 1999)

● 1909 - Max Baer, American boxer and actor (d. 1959)

● 1909 - Joseph Mankiewicz, American director (d. 1993)

● 1912 - Roy Fuller, English writer (d. 1991)

● 1914 - Matt Dennis, American singer

● 1915 - Patrick Leigh Fermor, English author

● 1917 - Sidney Sheldon, American author (d. 2007)

● 1919(21? NYT) - Eva Gabor, Hungarian-born actress (d. 1995)

● 1919 - Eddie Robinson, American football coach

● 1920 - King Farouk I of Egypt (d. 1965)

● 1920 - Billy Halop, American actor (d. 1976)

● 1920 - Daniel "Chappie" James Jr., American general

● 1921 - Lloyd Bentsen, American politician (d. 2006)

● 1925 - Peter Berger, British admiral

● 1925 - Kim Stanley, American actress (d. 2001)

● 1926 - Paul Bocuse, French chef

● 1926 - Alexander Gibson, British conductor

● 1926 - Leslie Nielsen, Canadian actor

● 1928 - Conrad Janis, Actor (''Mork and Mindy'')

● 1931 - Larry Merchant, American sportswriter

● 1932 - Jerome Lowenthal, American pianist

● 1934 - Mel Carnahan, American politician (d. 2000)

● 1934 - Tina Louise, American actress (''Gilligan's Island'')

● 1934 - Mary Quant, English fashion designer

● 1934 - John Surtees, British race car driver

● 1935 - Gene Vincent, American musician (d. 1971)

● 1935 - Bent Lorentzen, Danish composer

● 1936 - Burt Reynolds, American actor

● 1937 - Bill Lawry, Australian cricketer

● 1938 - Bevan Congdon, New Zealand cricketer

● 1938 - Simone de Oliveira, Portuguese actress

● 1938 - Manuel Noriega, Panamanian general

● 1939 - Gerry Goffin, American lyricist

● 1939 - Jane Yolen, American author

● 1940 - Bobby ''Boris'' Pickett, Singer

● 1941 - Sergio Mendes, Brazilian musician

● 1942 - Otis Clay, R&B singer

● 1951 - Mike Leavitt, Secretary of Health and Human Services

● 1953 - Philip Anglim, American actor

● 1953 - Jeb Bush, American politician

● 1954 - Noriyuki Asakura, Japanese composer

● 1956 - Catherine Hickland, American actress (''One Life to Live'')

● 1956 - Didier Lockwood, French violinist

● 1959 - Roberto Moreno, Brazilian racing driver

● 1961 - Mary Docter, American speed skater

● 1961 - Carey Lowell, American actress (''Law and Order'')

● 1962 - Sheryl Crow, American musician

● 1962 - Eric Vanderaerden, Belgian cyclist

● 1963 - Diane Franklin, American actress

● 1964 - Ken Shamrock, American martial artist

● 1964 - Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska

● 1965 - Vicki Wilson, Australian netballer

● 1967 - Hank Gathers, American basketball player (d. 1990)

● 1969 - Jennifer Aniston, American actress (''Friends'')

● 1970 - Fredrik Thordendal, Swedish musician (Meshuggah)

● 1971 - Damian Lewis, British actor (''Band of Brothers'')

● 1972 - Brian Daubach, American baseball player

● 1972 - Craig Jones, American musician (Slipknot)

● 1972 - Steve Mcmanaman, English footballer

● 1972 - Kelly Slater, American surfer

● 1973 - Varg Vikernes, Norwegian musician (Burzum)

● 1973 - Ethan Iverson, Jazz pianist

● 1974 - D'Angelo, American singer

● 1974 - Alex Jones, American radio host

● 1976 - Brice Beckham, American actor

● 1977 - Mike Shinoda, American singer (Linkin Park)

● 1978 - Peter Hayes (musician), American singer-guitarist (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club)

● 1979 - Brandy Norwood, American singer

● 1980 - Natasha Bobo, American actress

● 1980 - Matthew Lawrence, American actor

● 1980 - André "Titi" Buengo, Angolan footballer

● 1980 - Marco Bresciano, Australian footballer

● 1981 - Kelly Rowland, American singer (Destiny's Child)

● 1983 - Nicki Clyne, Canadian actress

● 1983 - Rafael Van der Vaart, Dutch soccer player

● 1984 - Aubrey O'Day, American singer (Danity Kane)

● 1985 - William Beckett, American musician (The Academy Is...)

● 1985 - Mike Richards, Canadian hockey player

● 1989 - Jazz Raycole, American actress

● 1990 - Q'Orianka Kilcher, American singer (''The New World'')

● 1992 - Taylor Lautner, Actor (''Cheaper by the Dozen 2'')

DEATHS

● 641 - Heraclius, Emperor of Byzantium

● 731 - Pope Gregory II

● 821 - Saint Benedict of Aniane

● 824 - Pope Paschal I

● 1141 - Hugo of St. Victor, German philosopher and theologian

● 1160 - Minamoto no Yoshitomo, Japanese general (b. 1123)

● 1503 - Elizabeth of York, queen consort of Henry VII of England (b. 1466)

● 1626 - Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician (b. 1552)

● 1650 - René Descartes, French philosopher (b. 1596)

● 1685 - David Teniers III, Flemish painter (b. 1638)

● 1713 - Jahandar Shah, Mughal emperor of Indai (b. 1664)

● 1755 - Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei, Italian archaeologist (b. 1675)

● 1762 - Johann Tobias Krebs, German composer (b. 1690)

● 1763 - William Shenstone, English poet (b. 1714)

● 1797 - Antoine Dauvergne, French composer (b. 1713)

● 1829 - Alexandr Griboyedov, Russian playwright (b. 1795)

● 1862 - Elizabeth Siddal, British poet and artist (b. 1829)

● 1868 - Léon Foucault, French astronomer (b. 1819)

● 1879 - Honoré Daumier, French caricaturist and painter (b. 1808)

● 1917 - Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician (b. 1872)

● 1923 - Wilhelm Killing, German mathematician (b. 1847)

● 1931 - Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (b. 1854)

● 1939 - Franz Schmidt, Austrian composer (b. 1874)

● 1940 - John Buchan, Governor-General of Canada (b. 1875)

● 1945 - Al Dubin, Swiss songwriter (b. 1891)

● 1948 - Sergei Eisenstein, Latvian film director (b. 1898)

● 1959 - Marshall Teague, American race car driver (b. 1922)

● 1960 - Ernst von Dohnányi, Hungarian conductor (b. 1877)

● 1963 - Sylvia Plath, American writer (b. 1932)

● 1968 - Howard Lindsay, American playwright (b. 1888)

● 1972 - Jan Wils, Dutch architect (b. 1891)

● 1973 - Hans D Jensen, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1907)

● 1975 - Richard Ratsimandrava, Malagasy soldier and statesman, assassinated (b. 1931)

● 1976 - Lee J Cobb, American actor (b. 1911)

● 1976 - Alexander Lippisch, German scientist (b. 1894)

● 1976 - Frank Arnau, German writer (b. 1894)

● 1977 - Louis Beel, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1902)

● 1978 - James B Conant, American chemist and university president (b. 1893)

● 1978 - Harry Martinson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1904)

● 1982 - Eleanor Powell, American actress and dancer (b. 1912)

● 1982 - Takashi Shimura, Japanese actor (b. 1905)

● 1985 - Ben Abruzzo, American businessman and balloonist (b. 1930)

● 1985 - Henry Hathaway, American actor and director (b. 1898)

● 1985 - Heinz Eric Roemheld, American composer (b. 1901)

● 1986 - Frank Herbert, American author (b. 1920)

● 1987 - Sadequain, famous Pakistani painter and artist. (b. 1930)

● 1989 - George O'Hanlon, American actor and director (b. 1912)

● 1991 - Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1922)

● 1994 - Neil Bonnett, American race car driver (b. 1946)

● 1994 - Sorrell Booke, American actor (b. 1930)

● 1994 - William Conrad, American actor (b. 1920)

● 1996 - Kebby Musokotwane, Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1946)

● 1996 - Cyril Poole, English cricketer (b. 1921)

● 1996 - Amelia Rosselli, Italian poet (b. 1930)

● 1997 - Barry Evans, English actor (b. 1943)

● 1997 - Don Porter, American actor (b. 1912)

● 2000 - Roger Vadim, French director (b. 1928)

● 2002 - Frank Crosetti, baseball player (b. 1910)

● 2002 - Barry Foster, British actor (b. 1931)

● 2004 - Shirley Strickland, Australian athlete (b. 1925)

● 2005 - Jack L. Chalker, American author (b. 1944)

● 2006 - Jockey Shabalala, South African singer (b. 1943)

● 2006 - Peter Benchley, American author (b. 1940)

● 2006 - Jackie Pallo, wrestler (b. 1926)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● Apparition of Our Lady of Lourdes.
● St. Adolf of Osnabruck
● St. Ardanus
● St. Calocerus
● St. Desiderius
● St. Gregory II, 89th Roman Catholic Pope (715-31)
● St. Jonas
● St. Lucius
● St. Paschal
● St. Severinus

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 29 (Civil Date: February 11)
● Translation of the Relics of Hieromartyr Ignatius the God-bearer, Bishop of Antioch
● St. Laurence, recluse of the Kiev Caves.
● Martyrs Romanus, James, Philotheus, Hyperechius, Abibus, Julian, and Paregorius, at Samosota.
● Martyrs Silvanus, Bishop of Emesa, Luke the deacon, and Mocius (Mucius) the reader.
● St. Aphraates of Persia, monk.
● St. Barsimaeus, Bishop of Edessa.
● Saints Gerasimus, Pitirim, and Jonah, Bishops of Perm.
● New-Martyr Demetrius of Chios.
● St. Andrew Rublev, iconographer.

● Greek Calendar:
● Martyrs Sarbelus and his sister Bebaia of Edessa.
● St. Ascepsimus, monk.

● Christian:
● St. Adolph
● St. Theodora, Byzantine empress

● National Foundation Day in Japan

● National Youth Day in Cameroon.

● National Inventors' Day in the United States.

● Bangladesh : Shaheed Day

● Cameroon : Youth Day

● Flint MI : White Shirt Day-end of blue collar sit down strike (1907)

● Florida : Gasparilla Carnival-remembrance of pirates

● Ft Myers FL : Pageant of Light (1884)

● Italy : Giorno della Conciliazione Day (1929)

● Liberia : Armed Forces Day

● Mauritius : Chinese Spring Festival

● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● World : Boy Scouts Day (1910) - ( Sunday )


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

Scope Systems Any Day Website

Roman Catholic Saint of the Day

Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

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